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SharePoint Planning Tools Abound -- Just Not From Microsoft (SearchWinIT)
Microsoft no longer offers the free System Center Capacity Planner for SharePoint Server, but third-party vendors are stepping up with both free and paid-for planning and analysis tools to help administrators build and manage SharePoint 2010 environments.

New IE9 Screenshot Leaked? (Windows 7 News and Tips)
Microsoft’s Russian website has apparently accidentally posted information regarding the upcoming beta of Internet Explorer 9 along with a screenshot of the new user interface. The screenshot has since been removed, but not before ZDNet’s, Mary-Jo Foley was able to grab it and post it.

Microsoft's Big Bing Theory Targets Google (ComputerWorld)
With Microsoft and Yahoo officially teaming up in the search market this week, it's time to wait and see if this move could eat into Google's hearty lead over its top opponents. Microsoft and Yahoo announced Tuesday that Bing is totally fueling Yahoo search results in the U.S. and Canada. The search integration comes more than a year after both companies announced that they were joining forces to better take on Google, the goliath of the search industry.

Microsoft Cloud Goes All Out (Redmond Channel Partner)
If anything is going to derail the cloud-computing train, it'll be cloud computing itself. Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite -- the cloud versions of Exchange, SharePoint and other tools that Microsoft itself hosts -- went out for a couple of hours on Monday. A couple of hours might not sound like a big deal, but it's a pretty long time to be without e-mail or SharePoint access. And, more to the point, two hours would be a virtual eternity if a truly critical system -- something like an ERP application or suite -- were involved.

(InfoQ)
In a recent post David Pallman takes a look at the hidden costs of moving to the cloud, specifically in the context of Azure. Cloud computing has real business benefits that can help the bottom line of most organizations. However, you may have heard about (or directly experienced) cases of sticker shock where actual costs were higher than expectations.

What Does Windows Phone 7 Need To Succeed? Developers. Part 1 of 2 (Technorati)
The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 has been sampled by most of the gadget geeks, with some positive reviews; but what will make it stand out from the rest when it comes out later this year? Its applications, of course. Go onto any digital technology site and you are likely to find a review of the new Microsoft Windows Phone 7; many praising the clean look and the ease of use but there are whisperings that the Windows Phone 7 has been rushed out and is actually an unfinished product.

Gov 2.0: DoD, Agencies Pilot Afghan Info Sharing (Information Week)
In a bid to increase collaboration and information sharing among non-governmental organizations, military and local citizens in Afghanistan, the military and intelligence community have recently begun piloting a project to provide Internet access and information sharing tools to Afghan communities.

 

Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint 2010 – My Site Error (Liam Cleary [SharePoint MVP])
This post specifically relates to the following: "You have deployed the User Profile Service Application, Created the connection, synchronized the Accounts from Active Directory but did not set a My Site URL when you configured the Service Application". If you receive an error similar to this when you click the following link, you will need to perform the steps below.

The Project Leader as a Servant Leader (Perspectives on SharePoint)
The project management world is changing and today’s project leader must raise the bar in both skill and character to succeed in delivering projects and building teams that produce value for the customer. One way to look at this change is to see the project leader as a servant leader . . . and do it in five steps.

SharePoint: Filtering with Web Part Connections (End User SharePoint)
Have you ever noticed the ‘Connections’ option on web parts and wondered what it was meant to do?  Have you played with it a bit, tried connecting one thing to another only to have nothing happen?  Did you do a web search to try to figure it out and come back with results like “Connection Interface Pair: ICellProvider, ICellConsumer “ and then give up, just to assume that was something you needed SharePoint Designer to master (and you don’t have SharePoint Designer?)  Welcome to the club!

Email Management in SharePoint 2010 #4: Records Management (Offline SharePoint)
Continuing the series based on the recent webinar that I participated with Colligo on email management in SharePoint 2010, in this fourth blog entry I’ll outline the new features designed to extend the Records Management capability of SharePoint 2010.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
BPC: Mark Miller Explains 'How to Build a Community in SharePoint' (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Mark Miller of EndUserSharePoint.com (EUSP) today presented a session that he had prepared expressly for the BPC on best practices in building a community around SharePoint.  With missionary zeal, Mark shared the benefit of his own experience, providing a brief history of EUSP and explaining the steps he employed along the way to grow his site into one of the largest SharePoint communities online.

BPC: 'SharePoint 2010: An Administrative Odyssey' with Lori Gowin (SharePoint 2010)
Lori Gowin, a founding member of Women in SharePoint, presented a session titled "SharePoint 2010: An Administrative Odyssey" on the topic of, not surprisingly, administration in SharePoint 2010 at the BPC this afternoon.  Lori, a self-professed fan of SF, cleverly referenced HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey throughout her session ("Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?"), and warned session attendees upfront that this was "a session for admins and what admins can do in Central Admin with SharePoint 2010."

BPC: Building Solutions That Users Get (The Bamboo Team Blog)
How do you know which SharePoint solution is going to best serve your users? How do you know which approach you should take? Jennifer Mason offers simple, effective tips to addressing these and other questions in Building Solutions That Users Get.

BPC: 'Making SharePoint 2010 My Sites Work for Your Organization' with Michael Doyle (SharePoint 2010)
Michael Doyle, aka the SharePoint Ninja (for reasons he is himself uncertain) delivered a session on Making My Sites work for your organization at the BPC this morning.  In the course of his session, Michael raised a number of considerations you should be aware of when approaching My Sites in SharePoint 2010.

BPC: Best Practices in Leveraging Microsoft Project 2010 With SharePoint 2010 for Project Management (The Bamboo Team Blog)
What's the number one tool used to collaborate in projects? E-mail. The telephone is number two. Shame on us. —Dux Raymond Sy. Echoing sentiments from his presentation yesterday, Dux Raymond Sy emphasized that communication and collaboration are key to successfully using Microsoft Project 2010 and SharePoint 2010 to create an effective project management information system (PMIS) in Best Practices in Leveraging Project 2010 With SharePoint 2010 for Project Management.

BPC: Building SharePoint Applications with InfoPath and SharePoint Designer with Darvish Shadravan (SharePoint 2010)
Let me start out by saying I am not a morning person. I require significant quantities of sugar and/or caffeine to operate any earlier than 9am. But when I saw a session at this week's Best Practices Conference that combined my three favorite topics - SharePoint, InfoPath, and Workflows - I knew I had to be there, even if it did start at 8am (who knew there were two 8 o'clocks in a day?).

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
Systems Administrator - SharePoint Implementation - Abbott Park, IL
The primary responsibilities for this position include the installation and configuration of the complex SharePoint infrastructure software. Responsibilities also include high-level systems administration and problem solving in order to provide solutions that are highly innovative and solve complex technical problems. Interaction with global divisional customers. requires excellent communication and customer service skills. This position requires an individual that is highly motivated, analytical, and technically competent. The candidate must be able to demonstrate mastery of the concepts and theory of the specific technology in their field. They must also have cross infrastructure disciplines and technology knowledge consisting of a broad understanding of IT standards and methodologies.

SharePoint Developer - Seattle, WA
Our client is looking for three to four SharePoint 2010 ASP.NET / C# resources to participate in ongoing development of a major enterprise SharePoint 2010 implementation. Please note this is a coding position not an administration position. The selected SharePoint developers will be responsible for: Working with the team leader and other stakeholders to design and develop the system to meet specifications. Building out internal and external facing sites, web parts, exposing disparate data, and dashboarding. Delivering new client implementations and transitions of older SharePoint & CMS systems to SharePoint 2010

 

Microsoft Updates
SharePoint Draft items not crawled (Microsoft Support)
SharePoint is not crawling drafts to return in search results.

 

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